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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Shaahi Arab Chicken Korma



Ingredients:-
Chicken (boneless)- 750 gms.
Garlic paste- 1 tbsp.
Ginger paste- 1 tbsp.
Salt- 1 tbsp.
Garam masala- 1 tbsp.
Mustard- 1 tbsp.
Butter- 1 tbsp.
B:
Mava- 200 gms.
Onion (chopped)- 1 large
Ginger (grated)- 1 tsp.
Salt- ½ tsp.
Lime- ½
Green chillies (chopped)- 6
Kothmir- ½ cup
Gravy:
Ghee / oil- ¾ cup
Bay leaf- 1
Onions (chopped)- 2
Ginger paste- 1 tbsp.
Garlic paste- 1 tbsp.
Cashew paste- 50 gms.
Fresh coconut paste- ½ cup
Garam masala- 1 tsp.
Kesar- 1 tsp.
Kashmiri chilly paste- 1 tbsp.
Curds- 1 cup
Salt (as per taste)
D:
Mint leaves- For garnish
Kothmir- For garnish
Almonds- For garnish

Method:-
Flatten chicken with a meat mallet & marinate it with (a) ingredients. Leave aside for 1 hour. Make a mixture of (b) ingredients. Fill it into each chicken & roll. Skewer with a toothpick. Shallow fry & keep aside.
Gravy:
Heat oil, fry bay leaf & onion till golden. Add ginger-garlic & continue frying. Add all other (c) ingredients. Cook till oil separates. Add 1 - 2 cups water. Cook till thick. Add chicken. Simmer for 5 minutes. Garnish with (d) ingredients. Serve.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Basundi



Ingredients:-
Buffalo's milk / thick milk- 2 litres
Sugar- 1/2 cup
Almond blanched & sliced- 2 tbsp.
Cashew nuts blanched & sliced- 2 tbsp.
Pista blanched & sliced- 2 tbsp.
Ghee- 1 tsp.

Method:-
Heat milk in a broad & heavy kadhai. Heat in high flame till milk starts boiling. Reduce flame & cook keeping a ladle in the centre. When cream is formed on top, gently keep pushing it to the sides of the vessel. Cook till 3/4Th of the milk is reduced repeating the process. Then scrape corners & put all the cream in the milk. Add sugar & switch off the stove. Stir gently till sugar is dissolved completely. Fry sliced nuts in ghee. Mix with basundi. Chill & serve in small cups.

Milk Halwa



Ingredients:-
Buffalo's milk- 1 litre
Sugar- 3 tbsp.
Citric acid- 2 pinches
Ghee- 1 1/2 tbsp.
Fine rawa- 1 tbsp.
Broken Cashew nuts- 1 tbsp.

Method:-
Boil milk in a heavy bottomed kadhai till it is reduced to 3/4Th of its consistency. Add sugar & cook for another few minutes. Add citric acid to curdle the milk & keep stirring for few minutes. Fry cashew nuts & rawa in ghee. Add to the halwa. Cook till dry. Add little more ghee if necessary. Remove from fire when halwa consistency is reached.

Plain Cashew Roll



Ingredients:-
Cashew nuts- 1 cup
Sugar- 3/4 cup
Silver foil- For decoration

Method:-
First cashew nut should be kept under direct sunlight for 2-3 hrs. Then roast it in a kadhai on low flame. Keep it in an oven for 1 minute. Then powder it in a mixer & keep aside. Heat sugar with water in a vessel. Water should be as such that the sugar gets immersed in it. Keep stirring till it becomes one string consistency. Then add cashew powder & stir well till it becomes like a dough. Wait till a ball shaped dough has been formed. Switch off the gas but continue stirring for two more minutes. Then spread the contents over the silver foil & make like a chapati in a chapati roller. Then cut it into diamond or roll shaped pieces.